Milk-pail holder



No. 625,|48. Patented May l6, I899.

vE. COBNFOBTH.

MILK PAIL HOLDER.

' (Application filed Feb. 21, 1899.)

(No Model.)

Lmm. msnmamu n c NiE STATES PATE T OFFICE.

EDWIN CORNFORTH, OF TIIORNDIKE, MAINE.

MILK-PAIL HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent no. 625,148, dated. May 16, 1899. Application filed February 21, 1899. $erial No. 706 380; (No model.)

To (tZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN CORNFORTH, a citizen of the United States,- residing at Thorndike, in the county of Waldo and State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Milk-Pail Holders, of which the following is a specification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The object of this invention is to provide simple means for supporting the pail at the proper height'between the knees of the milker and to insure the device remaining on the pail until the same is filled with milk, enabling the milker to carry the pail from cow to'cow without removing the device therefrom, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the deviceas it appears when in use, the pail being shown in dottedlines; and Figs 2 and 3, respectively, a detail perspective and vertical sectional view showing more clearly the spring holding device, in the latter view a portion of the pail being shown.

In referring to the drawings by letters, a designates a ring formed of a single strand of wire hooked together at it its ends. At diametrically opposite points this ring is provided with pairs of ears 19, extending upward and outward, these ears being formed by looping up a portion of the wire ring and the ears of each pair being separated a suitable distance. Pivoted to each pair of cars is a suspending-hook c, composed of a single strand of wire folded over upon itself and bent outward and downward at the upper folded end, the ends of the wire being formed into eyes and engaged in the respective ears I). The end portions of the wire extend upward vertically parallel a suitable distance before they are bent outward.

In use the hooks c are engaged over the legs of the sittingmilker between his knees and thighs, bringing the ring between his legs, where it will support the pail at the proper-position,relieving the milker of the necessity of supporting the pail by clamping it between his knees. It will be observed that by separating the ears I) of each pair and the vertical bars of the hooks connected thereto and separating the strands of the bentor leg-engaging portions of the hooks a broad and substantial support is afforded, preventing any pivotal or swaying motion of the pail forward or backward with respect to the milker, while at the same time permitting a free pivotalcoil=spring surrounding one of the vertical bars of the suspending hooks and having its lower end connected to the car 17 just below it and its upper end extending upward a suitable distance and formed into an open hook (1. After the pail is placed within the ring a these hooks d are raised and engaged over the rim of the pail, in which position they resiliently clamp the device to the pail, but in such a manner that it may be readily removed from the pail when desired.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a milk-pail-holdin g device, a pail-holding ring, a pair of suspending-hooks connected thereto, and a pair of spring clamping devices adapted to removably engage over the rim of a pail and hold the device thereon.

2. In combination with a pail-holding frame provided with a pair of suspensionehooks, of a spring-actuated device carried by each of said hooks,'and adapted to engage resiliently over the rim of the pail. p

3. In combination, a pail-holding frame, a pair of suspending-hooks, a spring clamping device attached at its lower end to the pailholding frame and formed into a hook at its upper end and a coil-spring intermediate its ends, said spring surrounding one of the bars of the suspension-hooks.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature, in the presenceof two witnesses, this 15th day of February, 1899.

EDWIN CORNFORTH. 

